Juliette Wells
1) Emma
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English
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The exquisite illustrations of Marjolein Bastin meet timeless text in this elegant special edition of an English masterpiece. Emma Woodhouse, is a beautiful, rich girl who is also spoiled, proud and blinded by her own situation in life. She begins to understand herself and life a little better when her romantic schemes - charitable good works to those around her - become entangled in tensions of class and of the heart.
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2017.
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English
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"Austen in America tells the story of America's long love-affair with Jane Austen and her work. Beginning with the first US edition of Emma, published in Philadelphia in 1816, Juliette Wells -- author of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination -- goes on to explore Austen's American publication history, correspondence with readers through the ages and the work of curators, promoters and fans of Austen in the 21st century."--
"A vivid...
3) Persuasion
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Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited. However, when they meet again, Wentworth behaves as if they are strangers and seems more interested in her friend Louisa. In this, her final novel, Jane Austen tells the story of a love that...
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